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 Who has more cameras than CNN ? The County Jail of course. However, that
doesn't stop officer McRae from beating a suspect with his handcuffs
while his co-workers look on. Two weeks later the tape is released and
offcier McRae will be fighting civil suits for the next 5 years. Read More
 Sometimes in the line of duty you run across kids question authority
and may not always give you the respect that you think your deserve.
Officer Rivieri makes it his mission to offer his own parental guidance
and embarrass himself and his department on national TV. Read More
On Feb. 8th 2008, a Baltimore resident filed a $40 Million lawsuit
against Sgt. Ray Woodward of the Baltimore police Dept. The victim, 16
y/o Teven James, claims that he was walking home and Woodward pulled
his car up on the curb and asked him what he was dong. “He got out his
car, walked around, and stood a couple feet in front of me,” said
James. James says he had not done anything wrong and he did not have
anything illegal. So he says he told the officer ‘go ahead and search
me.’ According to the lawsuit, Sgt. Woodward searched James, then
struck him in the face and fled the scene. James’ lawyer says the teen
was not arrested (nor has he ever been).
In
a videotapped incident last summer, Officer Salvatore Rivieri of the
Baltimore PD, made the following statements to 14 y/o Eric Bush:
“Obviously, your parents don’t put a foot in your butt quite enough,
because you don’t understand the meaning of respect. First of all, you
better learn how to speak. I’m not ‘man.’ I’m not ‘dude,’ I am Officer
Rivieri. The sooner you learn that, the longer you are going to live in
this world. Because you go around doing this kind of stuff and somebody
is going to kill you.”
As if the verbal abuse wasn’t enough, Officer Rivieri then attacks the
14 y/o- putting him in a headlock and jerking him to the ground.
Officer Rivieri then continues his verbal assault, by threatening to
“smack” the boy. Young Eric’s crime…. Skateboarding. Watch the
video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc
 A federal grand jury has indicted four Indianapolis men for drug trafficking. Three of them are IMPD police officers.
The federal investigation began back in March. It took several months of surveillance and phone tapes to build the case.
However, FBI agents believe the officers may have been dealing drugs for at least a year.
The FBI said IMPD narcotics detective 34-year-old Robert Long was the ring leader.
Court documents say Long, while in uniform, picked up a Fed-Ex package containing about a dozen pounds of pot.
Investigators said fellow narcotics detective 37-year-old Jason Edwards hid the drugs in his garage.
Investigators say less than a month later, Long, again on-duty, picked up a UPS package containing 50 pounds of pot.
Long checked 20 pounds into evidence, but investigators say he kept the rest.
A
few weeks later, investigators say Long and patrol officer 33-year-old
James Davis broke into an apartment using a forged warrant.
Long, Edwards and Davis thought there were drugs in the apartment, but they didn't find any.
Then
earlier this month, the three broke into an abandoned home thinking
there were hundred of pounds of pot and tens of thousands of dollars.
Agents say the three found five pounds of pot and more than $18,000 before wiping down fingerprints and leaving the home.
Investigators
say three officers then recruited 31-year-old Kabec Higgins to
distribute the drug and sell drugs from his local business, Ear Candy
Muzik.
"What makes this case significant is that police
officers used their power and authority to stop vehicles, to enter
residences to seize marijuana and cash not for a law enforcement
purpose, not to enforce the law but to make money for themselves," said
Timothy Morrison of U.S. Attorney in Southern District.
Detective Jason Edwards was already suspended from IMPD for a check forgery arrest back in March.
Now
all four men are facing felony conspiracy and trafficking charges. And
the three officers are facing charges for possessing firearms during
the drug offense.
 Deputy Todd J. Pierce, of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office (FL), was arrested on Jan. 25th 2006 on one count of lewd and lascivious molestation and one count of lewd and lascivious battery. The victim was a 15 y/o girl who attended the same high school that Deputy Pierce was assigned to as a School Resource Officer. Detectives began their investigation on December 2005 after receiving information concerning the suspect’s conduct with female students. The suspect was placed on paid administrative leave December 30, 2005. A State Attorney’s Investigation was held January 5, 2006. The suspect was subsequently arrested Wednesday, January 25, 2006. Detectives say the lewd and lascivious molestation occurred multiple times between August 22, 2001 and September 27, 2001 on the school grounds of Osceola High School. Detectives’ further report the lewd and lascivious battery occurred at the victim’s home on September 21, 2001. Deputy Pierce has remained on PAID leave since Dec. 30th 2005.
 North Providence police officer, Sgt. Michael Ciresi, is currently suspended and facing at least 10 criminal charges, which include two counts of burglary, two counts of conspiracy to commit burglary, use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence, two counts of receiving stolen goods, one count of attempted larceny from a stolen ATM machine, harboring, and obstruction of a police officer.
 Wayne Taylor, a New York City Police Dectective and his girlfriend Zelika Brown, have been arrested and charged with charged with kidnapping, promoting prostitution, assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The pair are accussed of forcing a 13 year old runnaway to work as a prostitute at parties, in which they instructed the girl to tell people that she was 19 years old and that she charged $40 to $80 for sexual acts. Taylor and Brown are also accused of taking the girl to parties throughout the city where she was told to have sex with about 20 men in exchange for money given to the pair.
Taylor has been suspended without pay.
 Although the next member of the Police Complaint Center’s “Dirty Dozen” is no longer a police officer (THANK GOD), we still thought it was necessary to add him to this section. Former Oak Brook Illinois, Randa Mucha, has certainly had his fair share of media attention over the last few years. Let’s first go back to Feb. 2006… Mucha was arrested and charged with using the department’s computer to illegally obtain information about a couple who started a local Citizens group (additional charges were also added approx. 1 month later). After much harassment by Mucha, the couple filed a lawsuit against Mucha and the City, in which they were awarded $2 Million. Shortly thereafter, Mucha was named in another lawsuit, which was filed by two Oakbrook Police Officers. The lawsuit states that Mucha and other Dept. Officials started a “vindictive and relentless campaign” to discredit them. The officers claimed that Mucha and other officials sent false e-mails to embarrass them, planted tracking devices in their police vehicles and pursued trumped-up disciplinary action against them because they were speaking about the department to critical residents and trustees. Next up… Mucha was again named in another lawsuit, which stated that Mucha and Oak Brook Village President Kevin Quinlan, conspired to harass and embarrass a resident repeatedly, so he would stop criticizing town government. Because Mucha’s behavior and unethical actions, the Village’s Insurance Company even threatened to discontinue coverage- due to the amount of money the paid out in claims. FINALLY in July of 2007 Mucha was FIRED from Oak Brook Police Department- (according to Mucha, he “left” the department). There’s so much more to know about Randy Mucha, but unfortunately we don’t have enough space on our site- but if you’d like to find out more, then here’s a few links for you to check out:
www.badcopnews.com (search: Randy Mucha)
http://www.oak-brook.org/dep_vservices/documents/Mucha8-17-06.pdf
http://randymucha.com (Randy’s own personal website about himself)
And if you have the time, feel free to send good ol’ Randy an email at:
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 On Jan. 29th 2008, Hillsborough County (FL) resident, Brain Sterner was arrested on a warrant and brought in to the Orient Road Jail in Tampa. Upon his arrival, Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones brought Sterner into the booking room and ordered him to stand up from the chair he was sitting in. When Sterner told Deputy Marshall-Jones that he “couldn’t stand up”, she became agitated and tipped the chair over, that Sterner was sitting in, causing him to fall over onto the floor.
In normal circumstances, a person’s refusal of an officer’s commands will, a lot of the time, cause the officer to use force- but in this incident, the circumstance was far from normal. The reason Sterner didn’t comply with Deputy Marshall-Jones’ orders is beacuase he is a wheelchair riden quadriplegic (which was known to Deputy Marshall-Jones, as she was the one to wheel him into the booking room). Deputy Marshall-Jones, along with three other Hillsborough County Deputies, have been suspened as a result of this inhuman treatment. Video link- http://news.aol.com/story/_a/police-tip-quadriplegic-out-of/20080213065109990001
 Officer William Bonanni, a 17 year veteran of the Albany police Department, who has has been the target of numerous civilian complaints for using excessive force against minorities, was recently found guilty by a federal jury in Utica on Wednesday of brutalizing a black suspect during an arrest.
Bonanni was accused of standing on the back of the victim’s head and grinding his face into the asphalt.
Bonanni has also been previously in trouble for showing up to work intoxicated and was also involved in the shooting death of David Scaringe in 2003.
Bonanni has spent more than 1/3 of his “carreer” on some type of administrative leave or suspension and is still on the job.
 NYPD Officers Thomas Elliassen, and Richard Danese, were recently named in a 33 count indictment stemming for an incident last Halloween. The two handcuffed a 14 y/o and drove him to an area near the West Shore rail line, then kicked and hit him while he lay face down on a remote road, stripped to his boxer shorts and then left him to find his way home. Here’s just a few of there charges; unlawful imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child, harassment, attempted assault and several felony and misdemeanor counts of falsifying records. If convicted of the most serious charges, they up to four years in prison.
 Remember Officer Farva, from the movie Super Troopers? Well, he’s the real life “Farva”. Officer Travis Parker of the Sharpsburg police dept., recently resigned in the midst of a controversy involving a school-bus traffic stop, in which Parker pulled the bus over after a student made faces and an obscene gesture at him. As he was removing the one student, others on the bus started yelling and using profanity, so he decided to go back on the bus and remove two other students. When the bus driver asked him what was going on, he just pointed to his gun and didn’t say nothing.
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